Posts Tagged ‘Plant-based nutrition’
Sunday, April 26th, 2015
The Dandelion Chocolate sales locations offer samples of their single-source bars
Sorting, Sniffing, and Tasting Are All Part of the Job of Making Intense Dark Chocolate Bars
Chocolate has always been one of my favorite foods. An allergy to chocolate in childhood was tough for me, and I could sneak only occasional bites. This sensitivity persisted, punishing me with a rash, a severe cough, and/or an excruciating headache if I dared eat chocolate even as an adult.
Happily, when I got rid of all the animal foods in my diet, I discovered I had never been allergic to chocolate at all. I had been allergic to the combination of chocolate made with milk. I could eat as much vegan dark chocolate as I wanted with no allergy symptoms.
While dark chocolate can be healthy, the amount you need to eat for health benefits is small – one to three ounces a week will do it. Eat too much, and you’re liable to (more…)
Tags: Dandelion Chocolate, dark chocolate, health benefits of chocolate, lose weight, nutrition facts, Plant-based nutrition, whole foods plant-based diet
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Sunday, December 14th, 2014
The vanilla flower is a gorgeous orchid, shown with the dried seed pods used for pure, natural vanilla spice
This Enticing, Aromatic Spice Protects Your Health In Five Ways
Vanilla has an image problem. The run-of-the-mill perception is that vanilla is a plain and boring choice. Once you learn about this extraordinary spice, your appreciation may change. In fact, vanilla is a rare, expensive, and health-enhancing flavor.
Vanilla is produced from the seeds of a tropical climbing orchid that grows as a vine. Native to Mexico, vanilla was used by the Aztecs in the chocolate drink of their royalty. The bees and hummingbirds that pollinate this orchid (more…)
Tags: antioxidants, cancer, chocolate, healthy desserts, inflammation, nutrition facts, Perfect Formula Diet, Plant-based nutrition, spice, vanilla, vanilla extract, vanilla powder, whole foods plant-based diet, whole foods plant-based recipes
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Monday, November 24th, 2014
You can pay a lot of money for turkey labeled as “organic” or “sustainable,” but there is no evidence this reduces the health risks of eating poultry
Chicken and Turkey Are Health Risks All Year Long
Turkeys are the routine centerpiece of many holiday meals, while chickens are a common “main course” for everyday dinners. Yet when you look closely at poultry, the health dangers may surprise you, and (more…)
Tags: cancer, chicken, dangers of poultry, diabetes, getting healthy, lose weight, Plant-based nutrition, Thanksgiving, turkey, weight loss, whole foods plant-based diet
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Monday, August 4th, 2014
The Center for Biological Diversity’s graphic carries a powerful message on the destructiveness of eating meat
The Center of Biological Diversity Shows the Best Way to Save Wildlife Is a Change in Diet
The Center for Biological Diversity, a nonprofit that has protected more than 500 endangered species and 220 million acres of their habitat, is an organization that is taking on the most unpopular truth in the environmental movement.
The Center’s newsletter, Endangered Earth, says it best in advocating their new Earth-friendly Diet Campaign. “You have at least three chances a day, every day, to save wildlife. Choose to take extinction off your plate.” You do this by pledging to cut your meat consumption by at least one third – and the less meat you eat, the better.
The Campaign’s site, TakeExtinctionOffYourPlate.com, shows how animals raised for food directly compete with wildlife for land and resources, such as food and water. Ranching business people are behind the shooting, trapping, and poisoning of millions of animals a year. Why? These wild animals threaten (more…)
Tags: Center for Biological Diversity, Earth-friendly Diet Campaign, extinction, Plant-based nutrition, Stepanie Feldstein, Take Extinction Off Your Plate, whole foods plant-based diet
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Friday, June 13th, 2014
Fruit sampling is a farmers market favorite for kids and their parents as well
Fears of Fruit Flood Ill-Informed Diets
Controversy swirls around the question of whether people who are overweight should eat fruit. On the one hand, this food is regarded as the embodiment of health, unprocessed and rich in vitamins, antioxidants, fiber, and other beneficial substances. But then there is the myth that (more…)
Tags: antioxidants, fruit, fruit and weight loss, fruit salad, lose weight, nutrition facts, Perfect Formula Diet, Plant-based nutrition, summer fruits, weight loss, whole foods plant-based diet
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Sunday, June 1st, 2014
Never Too Late To Go Vegan is an inspiring book with an inspired title
A Truer Book Title Has Not Been Written
The over-50 crowd now has their own book on ditching animal foods. Never Too Late to Go Vegan is a comprehensive guide to adopting and staying on a plant-based diet for this age group.
The book covers all the “whys” of making this change, as well as what to eat, how to cook it, and how to stay the course while dealing with some social and logistical challenges that vegans may run into. Lists of tips cover everything from how to make the transition to a plant-based diet to taming stress to places to learn more. Stories from the three coauthors, Patti Breitman, Carol Adams, and Ginny Messina, bring the lessons alive, as do many other entertaining and inspiring stories from others who went vegan in the second half of life.
I was happy to have a chance to talk with Patti Breitman, who is now a neighbor. Coincidentally, when I lived in Marin County in the 1990s, I regularly attended potlucks held by Patti’s organization Marin Vegetarian Education Group. These gatherings were an important force leading to my own (more…)
Tags: Carol Adams, getting healthy, Ginny Messina, lose weight, making a difference now, Never Too Late to Go Vegan, Patti Breitman, Plant-based nutrition, vegetables, whole foods plant-based diet
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Saturday, February 15th, 2014
More and more people are choosing veggie burgers over animal foods, for better health, superior taste, and kindness to animals and the planet
Three Simple Tips to Find the Best Ones
Veggies “meats” are plant-based versions of chicken, fish, burgers, and other animal foods. These foods are soaring in popularity, as more and more people are cutting way back on how much meat they eat, but are looking for convenient substitutes for their usual menu items.
The healthfulness of veggie meats depends on two things. The first is your point of view. Are you comparing these foods to (more…)
Tags: antioxidants, cancer, diabetes, getting healthy, Perfect Formula Diet, Plant-based nutrition, salt, veggie meats, VegWorld Magazine, whole foods plant-based diet
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Sunday, January 12th, 2014
This cold-fighting soup is nourishing, delicious, and easy to prepare
This Soup Recipe Is Thick With Lightly Cooked Vegetables
In winter you may find yourself near people who are coughing and sniffling. You don’t want to be next. Or maybe you’re already fighting a nasty cold yourself or, even worse, in bed with achy flu. Is there a soup that can enhance your odds against the viruses that cause such misery, that may boost to your own immune system and quell symptoms if you’re infected?
Lucky for you, research indicates a yes answer. You might have heard the urban legend that chicken soup is the best soup for a cold. Scientists actually did a study on this. Their data indicated it was actually (more…)
Tags: getting healthy, lose weight, mushrooms, Plant-based nutrition, soup recipe, vegetables, whole foods plant-based diet, whole foods plant-based recipes
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Sunday, December 29th, 2013
Your health is the prize when you successfully step through the stages of change
How To Keep Going Until You Reach Your Goals
You likely already know a whole foods, plant-based diet is the healthiest and most compassionate way to eat, but perhaps you haven’t managed to make the transition despite good intentions. How can you commit to a diet built on vegetables, fruits, beans, whole grains, nuts, seeds, herbs, and spices, with only a drop of processed foods – and make it work for you? A transformation in eating may appear (more…)
Tags: getting healthy, lose weight, Perfect Formula Diet, Plant-based nutrition, process of change, reverse chronic disease, stages of change, visualization, weight loss, whole foods plant-based diet
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Monday, November 25th, 2013
Charlie and Melody Fish have achieved amazing health improvements in just ten months on a whole foods, plant-based diet. Here they are in November 2013.
Charlie and Melody Fish Find A Plant-Based Diet Beats the Perfect Health Storm
Charlie Fish used to gasp for breath after walking a few feet. Now he can walk a couple of miles with no problem. Charlie shared his remarkable recovery story with me when I met him and his wife Melody at a Wellness Forum Conference in November 2013.
I asked Charlie how he used to eat before finding health on a whole foods, plant-based diet. “I grew up in Toledo, Ohio. My father had three restaurants, and let’s just say the family was well-fed. I was raised on meat, potatoes, gravy, and Hungarian food. I ate meat three times a day for my whole life, and saw nothing wrong with it. I was a ticking time bomb, and then it exploded.”
He continued “I was supposed to have foot surgery so was getting a pre-surgery EKG. The nurse mumbled something and left the room for 90 minutes. She came back and apologized. Something was very wrong with my EKG but even the cardiologist she had look at it did not know exactly what. I had a heart catheterization the same day. During the procedure I was drugged but still conscious. I heard one doctor say to another “What do you think about stents?” The other doctor just laughed. I knew then I was in big trouble.”
Just as he feared, (more…)
Tags: Charlie Fish, Darla Sherman, diabetes, heart failure, Melody Fish, Plant-based nutrition, sleep apnea, weight loss, Wellness Forum
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